Delta travel priviledges

[Erlanger]

I'd be interested in hearing about everyone's Delta travel privileges, especially of the changes if any the past year. I hear they are making them more restrictive and eventually Delta wants to end all travel privileges for their connection carriers and others, other then jumpseating and ZED fares. Anybody know anything about this? Thanks.

 

[Flyer1015]

I'd be interested in hearing about everyone's Delta travel privileges, especially of the changes if any the past year. I hear they are making them more restrictive and eventually Delta wants to end all travel privileges for their connection carriers and others, other then jumpseating and ZED fares. Anybody know anything about this? Thanks.

Um, no.

Delta obviously has the best travel bennies package for themselves. Second best are Skywest/ASA and then the non-wholly owned regionals that are Delta Connection (the sucky package).

 

[Erlanger]

Um, no.

Delta obviously has the best travel bennies package for themselves. Second best are Skywest/ASA and then the non-wholly owned regionals that are Delta Connection (the sucky package).

I hear the sucky package, as you put it consists of either no Delta travel at all for I believe Pinnacle and for Republic I believe they only get travel for themselves and spouse/domestic partner with no travel for a travel companion and no buddy passes. Anyone confirm this.

 

[Flyer1015]

I hear the sucky package, as you put it consists of either no Delta travel at all for I believe Pinnacle and for Republic I believe they only get travel for themselves and spouse/domestic partner with no travel for a travel companion and no buddy passes. Anyone confirm this.

Negative. We still get the travel bennies, free domestic flights, unlimited first/bus/coach. Free international outbound on first/bus/coach, and free inbound except gotta pay taxes (airline can't help that). Pilot, wife or domestic partner, kids, and your parents are covered.

The Pinnacle sucky is that our international flights across the Oceans are limited to 6 travel days. If you cross the Atlantic or Pacific, they deduct that. You're good for 3 roundtrips basically to Asia/Europe/Australia/Africa. Caribbeans and South America are not included in that restriction becaues they are not transoceanic.

The other thing that sucks is our priority for Pinnacle. It's S3C, and we are below Delta active (S3) and retirees (S3B) on mainline flights. Once you go above your 6 transoceanic travel day allotment, you can still fly across the pond but then you an extra service charge (like 150 bucks) but the worse thing is your status changes to S4 on day of travel, which puts you at the same place as buddy pass riders at the BOTTOM of all buddy riders.

Correct on no buddy passes. Non-wholly owned Delta Connection carriers do not get them (except Skywest/ASA have the different better travel bennies package). Parents get benefits, but S4 status (like a buddy pass rider) and they pay yield fares (depends on lenght of flight).

 

[comrcap]

Comair

Our benefits suck and DAL agents treat us like dirt. Thank tou for purchasing my company and leaving a smoking hole!

 

[PuffDriver]

:bawling::bawling::bawling:

Our benefits suck and DAL agents treat us like dirt. Thank tou for purchasing my company and leaving a smoking hole!

 

[titans10]

Negative. We still get the travel bennies, free domestic flights, unlimited first/bus/coach. Free international outbound on first/bus/coach, and free inbound except gotta pay taxes (airline can't help that). Pilot, wife or domestic partner, kids, and your parents are covered.

The Pinnacle sucky is that our international flights across the Oceans are limited to 6 travel days. If you cross the Atlantic or Pacific, they deduct that. You're good for 3 roundtrips basically to Asia/Europe/Australia/Africa. Caribbeans and South America are not included in that restriction becaues they are not transoceanic.

The other thing that sucks is our priority for Pinnacle. It's S3C, and we are below Delta active (S3) and retirees (S3B) on mainline flights. Once you go above your 6 transoceanic travel day allotment, you can still fly across the pond but then you an extra service charge (like 150 bucks) but the worse thing is your status changes to S4 on day of travel, which puts you at the same place as buddy pass riders at the BOTTOM of all buddy riders.

Correct on no buddy passes. Non-wholly owned Delta Connection carriers do not get them (except Skywest/ASA have the different better travel bennies package). Parents get benefits, but S4 status (like a buddy pass rider) and they pay yield fares (depends on lenght of flight).

So you think you should be S3 or S3B?

 

[atpcliff]

At my airline, we have reduced space-a travel on DAL for spouse, kids, parents. It is $100 US roundtrip + taxes/fees. It costs more to canada/mexico/carribean, then europe is more, and asia is more than that.

cliff
GRB

 

[Flyer1015]

So you think you should be S3 or S3B?

I think we should be at least S3B on mainline flights. Ridiculous to see a 80 yr old retiree get on at Delta while I get can't to work as a Delta Connection pilot. And if Delta wants us S3C on Delta, and S3 on Pinnacle, then it needs to be extended to say that we Delta Connection pilots are S3 on ALL Delta Connection carriers.

Btw, don't Skywest and ASA get S3 on mainline Delta? Maybe they can chime in.

At my airline, we have reduced space-a travel on DAL for spouse, kids, parents. It is $100 US roundtrip + taxes/fees. It costs more to canada/mexico/carribean, then europe is more, and asia is more than that.

cliff
GRB

I bet that is S4 status with a DOH of your flight date. Absolute bottom barrel. Everyone else and their mother gets to go on before this.

 

[Abernathy]

Btw, don't Skywest and ASA get S3 on mainline Delta? Maybe they can chime in.

At ASA, we used to be S3 priority on Delta, as well as given an allotment of S2s, however around 2007 they dropped our priority and we are now S3C (boarding behind a gate agent or ramper's mom). It was a result, from what we understood, of Delta not owning us anymore.

On that note, I would imagine Comair still gets S3 priority.

 

[titans10]

Why do you think you should get a higher pass privligde than an retiree who has put in years for that airline? Not just talking Delta now. I feel if my pay check has never said that airlines name than there employees and retirees should go ahead of everyone else. What was Pinnacles priority with NWA before the merger? How about on airlink flights before the merger happen? I believe NWA employees had priority on those flights also.

 

[makersmarc]

From what I understand, flight benefits are not a negotiable item. We get what we get because that's what the company wants to give us. If we don't like it, too bad.

At some point there will be a DCI association for pilots/crewmembers. At that point perhaps a point of leverage could be reached that would cause DL management to employ a policy that promotes a more efficient operation. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[altimaklr]

Get used to being bumped by rampers kids, retirees, and spouces when you are trying to commute to work! At least at NW, parents and retirees were after active regional employees.

 

[filejw]

I'd be interested in hearing about everyone's Delta travel privileges, especially of the changes if any the past year. I hear they are making them more restrictive and eventually Delta wants to end all travel privileges for their connection carriers and others, other then jumpseating and ZED fares. Anybody know anything about this? Thanks.

Eventually they want DELTA, DCI and then other airlines. One uniform system for anything that has Delta paint on it, long way off though.

 

[XPOO]

This is why SkyWest (OO) does everything it can to keep their priority on their own aircraft. While on a SkyWest operated flight, SkyWest employees and their spouse/companion and dependents are S3, parents and retirees are S3B, and buddy passes are S4. While all Delta employees/spouse/companion/dependents are S3C and retirees/parents/buddy passes are all S4.

 

[DYLIN]

Why do you think you should get a higher pass privligde than an retiree who has put in years for that airline? Not just talking Delta now. I feel if my pay check has never said that airlines name than there employees and retirees should go ahead of everyone else. What was Pinnacles priority with NWA before the merger? How about on airlink flights before the merger happen? I believe NWA employees had priority on those flights also.

Just talked to a gate agent a few weeks ago.

She was a DAL F/A for a short time after being a gate agent for years. She hated it but is interested in working for SWA as an F/A, and has several contacts there and a realistic chance at an interview when they become available.

This will be the scenario: she will use her Delta retiree pass privileges to commute to work for Delta's competition, and at the same time, possibly bump a DCI flight crew employee off the flight and since so many of the DCI carriers are critically understaffed, that could result in a cancellation of a flight.

To summarize that again: SWA F/A cancels DL connection flight.

That should never be possible, but it absolutely is.

 

[filejw]

Just talked to a gate agent a few weeks ago.

She was a DAL F/A for a short time after being a gate agent for years. She hated it but is interested in working for SWA as an F/A, and has several contacts there and a realistic chance at an interview when they become available.

This will be the scenario: she will use her Delta retiree pass privileges to commute to work for Delta's competition, and at the same time, possibly bump a DCI flight crew employee off the flight and since so many of the DCI carriers are critically understaffed, that could result in a cancellation of a flight.

To summarize that again: SWA F/A cancels DL connection flight.


That should never be possible, but it absolutely is.

In theory you are not supposed to use your pass privileges for any kind of business so if she got caught she could lose passes for period of time. That said commuting is our responsibility not Deltas. Delta doesn't care how I get to work and I dont think they care how somebody working for a DCI does either.

 

[jonjuan]

I think we should be at least S3B on mainline flights. Ridiculous to see a 80 yr old retiree get on at Delta while I get can't to work as a Delta Connection pilot.

commuting is a choice, brah....:beer:

 

[fatdumbandhappy]

Delta is good if you travel a lot, I just went to Tokyo for a few days, business (first) both ways, only payed $41 departure tax out of HND. I use up all my international days each year and have gone to South/Central America many times which is considered domestic and is unlimited! You just have to be flexible and willing to change plans at the last minute and go where the loads are light. I sit in business 95% of the time by following the last sentence.

 

[titans10]

Just talked to a gate agent a few weeks ago.

She was a DAL F/A for a short time after being a gate agent for years. She hated it but is interested in working for SWA as an F/A, and has several contacts there and a realistic chance at an interview when they become available.

This will be the scenario: she will use her Delta retiree pass privileges to commute to work for Delta's competition, and at the same time, possibly bump a DCI flight crew employee off the flight and since so many of the DCI carriers are critically understaffed, that could result in a cancellation of a flight.

To summarize that again: SWA F/A cancels DL connection flight.



That should never be possible, but it absolutely is.

If a flight cancells then I believe your DCI carrier should look into why you could not get to work. They do not make you live out of base. YOu decided to. So the blame should and will come down to you. NOt an Mainline employee or Retiree. I believe a mainline employee should get priority on ever flight that has there name on it.